SERIES OF OFFENCES

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1931, Page 3

SERIES OF OFFENCES

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST, TWO YOUTHS. DUNEDIN. March 6. An amazing story of the midnight peregrilidtions of two brothers, Leslie Williams Gibbons and Basil Charles Gibbons, was tolcj in the Magistrate’s Court to-day by a third youth who acted in the novel capacity of chauffeur for a night which was notable for a series of crimes which the brothers are alleged to have committed or attempeted to commit. The Gibbons brothers faced six charges of theft and breaking and entering, and also onfe of being idle and disorderly and- consorting with thieves. A long list of witnesses gave some startling evidence, hut nothing was so sensational a,s the story of a young man who, having borrowed a caV for the night/ spent some hours driving accused around the town while they plied their desperate calling., He told how they broke and entered several premises, .waited in a dark alley for a well-known musical conductor who they said saved himself by going in by the front door instead of the back, and visited the house of an equally wellknowii music teacher where “their luck was crabbed by someone standing on the corner.”, -Witness, described the breaking in of doors and the rapid accumulation of booty which appeared in Court as exhibits-—silk stockings, a battered safe, bottles of whisky and wine, purses, tools, and a variety of feminine, articles of clothing, some of which was recovered from sewers, much from vacant lots, and more from accused’s house. A Salvation Army related how he/salvaged, a safe from the breakers at Lawyer’s Head. Botli: were remanded for a. week.